The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-11-02
ANCESTRAL BLOOD.
THE DISTINCT FORCES OF cIVlLlzA
TON IN THE SOUTH.
The Cavaliers in the Old Cotton States
Lord BaItimOre's Catholic Colony
PrOmi N emit characteristics of
Southern Chivalry.
[cor. Detroit Free Press

Setting aside the black race for the
present there are four distinct forces of
civilization in the south today which can
easily be traced to the strains of ancestral
blood, coloring each its strip of the entire
web of southern society. one is domi
nant in one part of the south, another in
another.
The most difficult to analyze is the mon
grel blood of Texas, which makes it like
the early northwest, only in exaggerated
form-the New England blood strained
through the adventurous west mixed with
every other blood on the face of tue earth
and the whole raised to fever heat That
is Texas
Louisiana is dominated by the blood of
the Latin races centered at New OOrleans
easy going, pleasure seeking.
Florida, settled by Spain 80 years ago,
has lost much of its early Spanish tinge.
and the dominant force is now the most
cultured strains of Puritan blood, cold,
polished and self-contained
BLOOD OF THE CAVALIERS.
The old cotton states are denominated
by the blood of the cavaliers in ecJed into
this region in the following order:
1. Sir Walter Raleigh's colony, which.
in the age of Queen Elizabeth, Shakes
peare and Bacon, landed at Roanoke
island, now in North Carolina. in 1884
the first English colony in America
2 The Virginia company, which
landed at Jamestown in 1907, thirteen
years before the Puritans landed or
Plymouth Rock, and tlourished under
John Smith, Lord De La Ware and others
of the English nobility
g. Lord Baltimore's colony in Mary
land 1882 the first colony of English
Roman Catholics and the first to pro
claim religious freedom and to welcome
all sects.
While Baltimore, Richmond, Savannah
and other southern cities pride them
selves upon their pure strains of cavalier
blood, none place higher value upon il
than Charleston, S. c., and its dominan
civilization may be taken as typical o.
southern chivalry.
LEADING CHARACTERISTIC
Some of its prominent characteristic
are:
/. An apparent contempt for money
matters Money is regarded of less i'm
portance than breeding, manners an(
many other things The "smell of the
shop the talk of business. and all that
is not only regarded excessively vulgar ii
mixed society, at the table and in othe
places, but even in merchants counting
room it must be approached only afte
other topics are discussed, and in round
about way that makes it appear as mat
ter quite subordinate and incidental
=. Deference to women. This is appar
ent not in drawing rooms only. but every
where. | have seen gentlemen rise t.
give their seats in a sEeet car to poor
old black nanny under circumstance S
where northern gentleman woulC
scarcely have risen for the most captivat
ing woman in existence. Southern gentle
men view with establishment the absenc'
Of such amenities in northern cities II
northern cities it is often at the risk O
life and limb that one attempts to cross
street full of teams. In the south it
quite different Drivers of all grade
stop their teams if necessary to let yol
cross without risk
3. Regard for the reputation and feel
lngs of others. Back biting is almOs
entirely unknown in southern society
You seldom hear anything derogatory t.
others.
Isn't it the fear of the pistol tina
checks detection. you ask.
Well, if it is. would not the introduc
ton of this little implement have {
wholesome iect in gossiping circles o
The north, where the bones of a neighbor'
reputation are too often picked with
relish? This trait of southern society
sometimes carried too far. as whel
written testimonials of good character art
gwen unworthy persons